Sentence examples for aggressive machinations from inspiring English sources

The Dresden anti-Islam demonstrations have included slogans decrying Chancellor Merkel's sharp attitude countering the aggressive machinations of Russian president Vladimir Putin in Ukraine and other former Communist countries, now independent.

The play's subtle machinations are drowned out by Fiennes's aggressive approach; he plays Coriolanus as a hardheaded brute, an embodiment of all the worst stereotypes of military men.

The same Christian fundamentalist groups I have referred to above -- small numbers, but loud and aggressive -- fought back tooth and nail, labelling it all as the machinations of rampant secularism.

Why the machinations?

It lost Lebanon to French machinations.

"Justice has been sacrificed to political machinations".

"The machinations are fascinating," she adds.

But these are surface plot machinations.

These machinations seem, from the first, halfhearted.

Geopolitical machinations offer one possible reason.

"Extremely aggressive.